Articles

What’s the problem? (ie: why should we care)

• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) are more innovative than homogeneous groups. 
  How Diversity Makes Us Smarter, Scientific American

• Programming Diversity (talk at DrupalCon 2013) 
  Programming Diversity - session recording, Drupalcon Portland 2013Programming Diversity - session proposal for DrupalCon Portland 2013

• On Meritocracy 
  On Meritocracy, by Glenn Gillen, 30 November 2013

• The Loneliness Of The Female Coder 
  The Loneliness Of The Female Coder, Ciara Byrne, 09.11.13

• Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender 
  Researchers find software repository GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but only if the gender was not disclosed
  Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender, The Guardian, by Julia Carrie Wong, 12 February 2016

• How Diversity Can Drive Innovation 
  How Diversity Can Drive Innovation, Harvard Business Review, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall and Laura Sherbin, The December 2013 Issue

• Why Gender-Diverse Work Teams Are The Most Productive – And Profitable 
  Why Gender-Diverse Work Teams Are The Most Productive – And Profitable, The Forbes, by Panos Mourdoukoutas, Dec 21 2016

• Why diversity matters 
  Why diversity matters, McKinsey.com, by Vivian Hunt, 2015

• We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley 
  We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley, Harward Business Review, by Todd L. Pittinsky, April 11 2016

Illustrating and talking about it

• Buffer Diversity Dashboard: Diversity Dashboard 2.0, Buffer

• Diversity and Inclusion: An update on our data | Slack Diversity and Inclusion: An update on our data, Slack.com

• We’re committing to a more diverse Twitter We’re committing to a more diverse Twitter

• Diversity and Equality at Etsy Diversity and Equality at Etsy

• Open Source & Feelings Diversity Statement Open Source & Feelings Diversity Statement

• Diversity & Inclusion at Vox Media Diversity & Inclusion at Vox Media

What you can do to help

• Where to Recruit Founders of Diverse Backgrounds A Community Resource

• Action Guide Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide

• Racial Equity Tools: Racial Equity Tools

• Managing Unconscious Bias: Managing Unconscious Bias

• Social Justice Phrase Guide: The Social Justice Phrase Guide, Advancement Project andThe Opportunity Agenda

• Etsy CTO: Prioritizing Diversity in Our Hiring Fielded Better Women … and Men (article & video) Etsy CTO: Prioritizing Diversity in Our Hiring Fielded Better Women … and Men, Etsy.com, Rebecca J. Rosen, Feb 7, 2013

• Books to Help You Understand Your Biases and the Lived Experiences of People The 101-Level Reader: Books to Help You Better Understand Your Biases and the Lived Experiences of People, Ashe Dryden (long list of resources)

• Project Include: Project Include